Julius Busch
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Julius Busch (born December 4, 1838 in Kevelaer ; † October 24, 1912 in Neuss ) was a German architect who is best known for his neo-Gothic church buildings in the Rhineland .
Life and education
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Busch was born the son of a teacher in the pilgrimage town of Kevelaer. After completing his construction training at the Berlin Building Academy with the state examination to become a building supervisor ( government building supervisor , trainee lawyer in public construction), he settled in Neuss. After practicing there, he passed the second state examination for government builder ( Assessor ) on March 14, 1868 in Berlin , but soon retired from civil service and worked as a self-employed architect. He designed, remodeled or restored around 120 churches.
Busch was musically gifted and worked in Neuss as a volunteer choir director of the Quirin choir, which he founded. He was also involved in politics, was a leading member of the German Center Party in Neuss and also a city councilor . The population took an active part in his funeral in the old part of the main cemetery.
Buildings and designs
In Neuss
- 1884: St. Josef Church at the Augustinian Hospital (now St. Augustinus Clinics )
- 1884: Church of St. Josef in Weissenberg
- 1888: Church of St. Peter in Hoisten
- 1901: Church of St. Josef in Weckhoven (profaned)
- 1902: Church of St. Mary
- 1902: Chapel in the main cemetery
- Residential and commercial buildings on Breite Strasse and Drususallee
- Residential building Krefelder Strasse 43
A few short building descriptions can be found in the lists of architectural monuments in Neuss, which are sorted by street
St. Joseph, Weckhoven
Krefelder Strasse (1870)
Breite Strasse 65 (1871)
Breite Strasse 22 (1874)
Breite Strasse 24 (1875)
Drususallee 84 (1901/1902)
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In other places in the Rhineland
- 1887 and 1893/1894: Restoration and neo-Gothic vaulting by St. Johann Baptist in Niederaussem
- 1887–1888: St. Lambertus in Hückelhoven
- 1889–1890: Church of St. Brigida in Baal (war damage)
- 1889: Catholic rectory in Boisheim
- 1889–1890: Extension of the Church of St. Mary's Visitation (1853 by Vincenz Statz ) in Hehn (extension by octagon and new choir in the east and two west towers)
- 1893–1900: Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Cologne-Mülheim (destroyed in the war except for the outer walls)
- 1893: Church of St. Dionysius in Gleuel (war damage)
- 1891–1894: St. Lambertus Church in Bedburg
- 1897–1901: Church of St. Peter in (Alt-) Königshoven (demolished in 1979/1980 due to open-cast brown coal mining)
- 1899: neo-baroque residential and commercial building at Mainzer Strasse 36 in Bingen am Rhein (with Carl Moritz )
- 1899–1900: Church of St. Maria Rosenkranz-Königin in Langenfeld- Wiescheid
St. Maria Rosary Queen in Wiescheid
St. Mary's Visitation in Hehn
St. Brigida in Baal
St. Dionysius in Gleuel
Sacred Heart Church in Cologne-Mülheim
St. Peter in Alt-Königshoven
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literature
- Jens Metzdorf (Ed.): 150 citizens. The civil society of Neuss 1861–2011. Bürgergesellschaft zu Neuss, Neuss 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039656-4 , p. 73.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , 2nd year 1868, No. 12 (from March 20, 1868), p. 114 (section Personal-Nachrichten ).
- ↑ cf. Vita
- ↑ "-nau": architect Julius Busch died 100 years ago. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung of October 24, 2012 ( online ( memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove them Note. On www.heimatfreunde-neuss.de , last accessed on February 28, 2014)
- ↑ Boisheim - Before the pastorate. (Text on the Open Monument Day 2002), last accessed on February 28, 2014
- ↑ Parish of St. Mary's Visitation Hehn (ed.): Parish and Church of St. Mary's Visitation of Hehn. Mönchengladbach 2008. (Brochure, online as a PDF document with 352 kB)
- ↑ Herz-Jesu-Kirche at www.clemens-mauritius.de , last accessed on February 28, 2014
- ↑ cf. List of cultural monuments in Bingen am Rhein
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Busch, Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 4, 1838 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kevelaer |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 24, 1912 |
| Place of death | Neuss |